Improvement in medical compounds for skin diseases



FREDRICK W. A. BERGENGREN, OF STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN.

- lMPROVEMENT IN MEDICAL CCM POUNDS FOR SKIN DISEASES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 124,660, dated March19, 1872.

Specification describing a certain Compound called Victors Restorativeand Preservative for the Toilet, invented by FREDRIOK WVIL- HELM ALEXISBERGENGR'EN, of Stockholm, in the Kingdom of Sweden.

Take of bruised cloves, (Flores cm'yophyllusg three drachms; Origammnmajomnmmtwelve grains; red rose, (Flores rosce rubrca) sixteen grains;bruised cardamom seed, (Semina cm"- dqmz0mi,) sixteen grains boilingdistilled water, eight fluid ounces. Macerate the whole in a coveredvessel for two hours and then strain it. Take then one hundred andeighty grains of boracic acid, (E0 and dissolve it in eight fiuid ouncesof boiling distilled water, and add fifteen grains of chlorate ofpotassa, (KO,UIO and twelve grains of citric acid, (G ,H ,O +4HO.) Whenthis solution isperfectly dissolved mix it with the first-namedinfusion, and filter it in the ordinary way when the compound is readyfor use.

This compound is to be used as an external Wash on the skin and scalp,for the prevention and destruction of sundry skin diseases such asringworms, eruptions, 850.; and has been used by me inmy medicalpractice for these purposes with very successful results. The compound,as shown, does not contain any ingredients that are in anyway injuriousto the skin, and is as effectual in itsoperation as it is harmless inits action.

I do not, however, confine myself to the exact proportions of each ofthe ingredients hereinabove named, as I may choose to change theirrelative proportions slightly, according to circumstances.

Having thus fully described the mode of making and using my compound, Iwish to secure by Letters Patent, and claim-- The medical compound,composed of the ingredients, and made in a manner and for the purpose asherein set forth and described.

FBEDRIGK W. A. BERGENGREN.

Witnesses:

CHARLES H. BOYNTON, LEMUEL LANE.

